 "Constitution of India")
India has the lengthiest constitution in the world, taking two years, 11 months and 18 days to be written by the nation’s modern founders.
At inception, many called it a "patchwork" of different constitutions and doubted its ability to keep India together as a democracy.
"Too long, too rigid, too prolix," said Sir Ivory Jennings, a renowned constitutionalist of that time, about India’s founding document.
'Organiser', the weekly mouthpiece of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, warned against “this precipitate dose of democracy” and said Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru “would live to confess the failure of universal adult franchise in India”—a right
